I still don't get this how in the he77 can I have one of the fastest....... I have the regular power connection. I don't even have the highest speed offered I called and asked my ISP. They tried to get me to upgrade ROFL... I told them I was just calling to ask where my connection rated in price performance level and they said I was the standard not the limited not the extra speed middle of the road.......

Don't you have FioS rapid1. THey try to get me to upgrade everytime I call about anything. Great internet horrible tech support by the way. On the bright side I now now a few things about configuring a router

yeah, I am a hardware network engineer so I guess I have extended knowledge and have the network tweaked a bit, but I don't have FIOS yet. I asked about it but she said it wasn't here yet and wouldn't give me any definite on FIOS timeline. The only thing I can figure is multifaceted to a point I worked for Comcast in the past there were connection problems here for several years. Then Comcast bought Adelphia (the old provider) the problems still existed for about a month and a half. I wouldn't take any sole responsibility on this but I called and raised a bit of hell for a couple weeks I assume others were to. Then they ran 2 new lines of the thick underground cabling to my building. The buildings here are somewhat strange in that each floor of each building has a Siemens Com room. All the phone lines Cable Lines etc for the whole floor run through here which is a very nice (corporate setup) that you wouldn't expect in an apartment complex.On top of that the TV signal is mixed between dish and cable. So at least that splits the amount of customers on the line then the amount who have cable internet must be well under capacity for me to have a signal as strong as I do. I guess it's luck of the draw but from the strength I see with the signal level I have I would say there's 10 or less cable internet subscribers on this line for this floor of the building.

Thats nice rapid. I was never that lucky when I had comcast.

I am visiting my mother in Japan who has FTTH connection whose speed is claimed to be nominal 100Mbps Up/Down. I personally measured connection speeds to and from various points and their typical speeds as follows:
1. Download from telocom's server: 89 - 92 Mbps
2. Download from Entry point to the ISP's backbone: 28Mbps
3. Download from ISP: 15Mbps
4. Down/Up within Japan:15/10Mbps
5. Down/Up from/To Atlanta/U.S.: 6/0.7Mbps
6. Down/Up from/to Sanfrancisco/U.S.: 10/0.8Mbps

1. above were mesured by a test site given by the telecom and the 2./3. were by test sites given by the ISP. 4. 5. and 6. were mesured by using Speedtest.net.

One tech support with the telecom company(NTT-Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company) told me that internet connection speed varies with ISPs and that the typical speed within Japan is 30 to 40 Mbps. Another tech support from NTT said typical speed is 15 to 20Mbps.
I did see once 24Mbps download speed within Japan using speedtest.net.
The connection speed of 100Mbps to the nearest server as claimed by the telecom is very real. I questioned the ISP why in the world the connection speed is only a fraction of 100Mbps. Their response was that the speed is going down even within the telecom's network so that the speed at an entry point to their backbone is already way down, which they said is beyond their control.
The first hop is realy fast but it appears that rest of the network infrastructure needs catch up in order to fully utilize FTTH connection even within Japan, not to mention worldwide.

As to the article, I can believe 2.3Mbps download speed in U.S. but over 60Mbps in Japan does not appears to be average download speed but it could be the speed to telecom's CO or a server nearest to subscribers. The speed in Japan even by that definition appears unrealistic because the majority of Japanese still subscribe to ADSL whose speed tops out at 50Mbps. ADSL speeds available in Japan are 1M, 1.5M, 8M, 12M, 24M, 40, 50M. My another relative who is located in a small town subscribes to 12M ADSL and typical connection speed is 2Mbps because of location of their house relative to the CO. Their house is recently wired from a cable TV company by optical fibre wire so that they have option of subscribing to internet connection service at 30M Down/Up.

Well I am skeptical of that test or there testing method. When I test on DSL reports I don't get that speed. I get decent speed but it's well under the astronomical figures the speed matters test gives. So somethings fishy here about the speed matters test as I tested through four sites around the nation on DSLreports. So I don't believe the speed matters test read.

Some ISPs give you a speedbump when you have a speet test running.